Josef Fröhlich (actor)
Josef Fröhlich (born May 10, 1933 in Mistelbach , Austria ; † mid-1990s) was an Austrian actor .
Live and act
In the mid-1950s, Fröhlich received training as an actor from Fred Liewehr and Vilma Degischer at the Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and then, after his debut in Schleswig , in Bregenz , Chur , Berlin (at the theater there on Kurfürstendamm ), Hamburg , Göttingen and Munich (at the local intimate theater) stood on the stage. Since the 1970s, he has been working mainly as a freelancer. Mostly one saw the gaunt, slim artist with the shy, pale face in light-weight pieces of the boulevard theater (comedies and comedies).
In 1958 he made his film debut with a tiny soldier role in the war film Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever . In the following decades, Fröhlich took on countless supporting roles in an abundance of film and television productions. Various of his early TV works are ambitious productions (such as One Day - Report from a German Concentration Camp in 1939 ) or true-to-original adaptations of literary models (such as Ein Wintermärchen or Judith ).
He often embodied inconspicuous types, petty crooks as well as the average citizen who was not used to success. Small town bourgeois, simple clerks, or honest men, Fröhlich also starred in a considerable number of cheap soft sex films from the early 1970s. He was rarely seen with leading roles like the bridegroom in the 1969 television play Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit based on a model by Bertolt Brecht or in the same year as the title hero in grace for Timothy Evans . A year later he got his most famous role: In the scandalous future thriller Das Millionenspiel , Fröhlich, as subordinate of Dieter Hallervorden, was one of several hired killers of the Köhler gang who are murderously hunting down a young man as part of the said game. In 1979 he played the magician Merlin in the television series of the same name.
In 1986 he had a supporting role in Wolfgang Glück's feature film 38 - That was Vienna too , which in 1987 was nominated as an Austrian contribution for the Oscar / Best Foreign Language Film .
Josef Fröhlich has not appeared in front of the camera since the mid-1990s. Only later did it become known through his acting agency ZBF Munich that Josef Fröhlich died a short time later.
Filmography (selection)
- 1958: Dogs, do you want to live forever
- 1961: Today we're going for a stroll
- 1964: Thomas More (TV)
- 1965: The Journey (TV)
- 1965: One day - report from a German concentration camp 1939 (TV)
- 1965: A winter fairy tale (TV)
- 1965: Das Kriminalmuseum (TV series) - The glasses
- 1966: The Fifth Column (TV series) - Murder on Order
- 1966: The prisoners of Murano (TV)
- 1966: Standgericht (TV)
- 1966: Judith (TV)
- 1967: The Blind Man (TV)
- 1967: The Picture (TV)
- 1968: Time of Half Hearts (TV)
- 1968: The Reformer (TV)
- 1968: The Cat (TV)
- 1969: Kim Philby was the third man (TV)
- 1969: The petty bourgeois wedding (TV)
- 1969: Transplantation (TV)
- 1969: The Commissioner (TV series) - A girl no longer answers
- 1969: Grace to Timothy Evans (TV)
- 1970: Right to Conscience (TV)
- 1970: Der Kommissar (TV series) - Der kleine Schubelik
- 1970: The blind ants (TV)
- 1970: The Millionaire Game (TV)
- 1971: In the middle of the night (TV)
- 1971: Eroticism at work - what every HR manager likes to keep quiet
- 1971: Conspiracy in Ulm - The Reichswehr Trial 1930 (TV)
- 1971: The new hot sex report - What men don't think is possible
- 1971: Section 218 - We have an abortion, Mr. Public Prosecutor
- 1971: Vacation Report - What tour guides are not allowed to talk about
- 1971: Student report
- 1971: The new housewives report
- 1972: The convent students
- 1972: Schoolgirl Report. Part 3: What parents don't even suspect
- 1972: Girls who come to Munich
- 1972: Apprenticeship Report
- 1972: flashlight (TV)
- 1973: A Swiss as ordered (TV)
- 1973: The family festival (TV)
- 1973: Homicide Squad (TV series)
- 1973: Keyhole Report
- 1974: Schoolgirl Report. 7th part: But the heart has to be there
- 1974: Charly's nieces
- 1976: The mute
- 1976: I want to live
- 1976–1991: Derrick (seven episodes of the crime series)
- 1977: Schoolgirl Report. 11th part: Trying is better than studying
- 1977: Three are one too many (TV series)
- 1978: intermediate track
- 1978: Derrick - (Episode 52: Abitur)
- 1979: blood trail (Bloodline)
- 1979: The school girls from Treffpunkt Zoo
- 1979: The Protocols of Mr M - Ticket to Naples (TV series)
- 1979: Merlin (TV series)
- 1979: Der Ringer (The American Success Company)
- 1980–1984: The Old One (five episodes of the crime series)
- 1982: Two dead in the transmitter and Don Carlos in the Pogl (TV media satire)
- 1983: The Sailors of Kronstadt (TV)
- 1985: Police Inspection 1 - (episode 90: daring morals)
- 1986: 38 - That was Vienna too
- 1989: Jack Clementi - a call is enough ... ( Big Man , TV series, episode 6x06)
- 1990: success
- 1995: That's life! The Wagenfelds (TV series)
Web links
- Josef Fröhlich in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Josef Fröhlich at filmportal.de
annotation
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Happy, Josef |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1933 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mistelbach , Austria |
DATE OF DEATH | between 1990 and 1999 |